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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • New request for comments: start time / end time vs. publication date of 1st / last episode
  • Proposal to add some order and structure to the various bibliographic corpora we currently have in Wikidata (mailing list post)

• Events/ Press/Blogs
  • Past: IRC office hour about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. You can read the log on meta.
  • Upcoming: Wikidata workshop in Prague, December 1st
  • Well structured political data for the whole world: impossible utopia, or Wikidata at its best?
  • Spatial-based Topic Modelling using Wikidata Knowledge Base (in Wikidata as Q43662744)
  • Cleaning BNF identifier in Wikidata by Envlh (in French)
  • Monitoring changes to Wikidata pages of your interest by Egon Willighagen

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Sandra is co-ordinating an inventory of crucial volunteer tools for Wikimedia Commons, GLAM, and structured data in general. You can provide input and prioritize your favorite tools in this Google spreadsheet.
  • Q43649390 is an item about our concept of "QID"s
  • OpenRefine 2.8 was released. Adding columns from Wikidata and importing Wikitables is now possible.

• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: type foundry, Accademia della Crusca ID, first appearance, USGHOF athlete ID, Kulturelles Erbe Köln object ID, Städel Museum artist ID, Berlinische Galerie artist ID, Tidal video ID, Tidal track ID, Tidal album ID, Tidal artist ID, HTML entity, Norwegian historical register of persons ID, Merchant Category Code, SS KL Auschwitz Garrison ID, West Australian Football League player ID, Wikidata project, BPH journal ID, SNCZI-IPE reservoir ID, BTO five-letter code, awarded for period, electoral district number, Art Museum of Estonia artwork ID, Art Museum of Estonia artist ID, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ID, Basketball-Reference.com WNBA ID, National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame ID, IJF ID, SNCZI-IPE dam ID, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame ID, FAI ID, Canada Games ID, ICRC PoW ID, RA Collections ID, mountain range, Everyone Remembered ID, CNRS research group ID, ARLIMA ID
  • Query examples:
    • People who were Time Person of the Year in two consecutive years ( source)
    • Fictional characters “said to be the same as” other fictional characters from the same fictional universe ( source)
    • Map of places of birth of deceased sociologists ( source)
    • Map of libraries in India ( source)
    • Train and subway stations in Basque Country ( source)
  • Newest database reports: Decameron editions and translations

• Development
  • Result views in the Wikidata Query Service UI can now be configured with options ( phabricator:T155973, Special:Diff/580233265/596922582)
  • Worked more on introducing the concept of sub.entities in the APIs in order to make edits to Forms persistent
  • Worked on edit summaries for edits to Forms

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here.

• Monthly Tasks
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
  • Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
  • Suggested and open tasks!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item.
  • Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
  • Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
  • Help write the next summary!

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1,246		Sasural Simar Ka ( talk)	Add sources
28		Northern India Engineering College (Delhi) ( talk)	Add sources
12		Institute of Home Economics ( talk)	Add sources
9		University School of Management Studies ( talk)	Add sources
214		Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University ( talk)	Add sources
10,773		Indira Gandhi ( talk)	Add sources
2,444		Kumkum Bhagya ( talk)	Cleanup
88		Miranda House, Delhi ( talk)	Cleanup
156		Maharshi Dayanand University ( talk)	Cleanup
15		Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 3) ( talk)	Expand
202		ESET NOD32 ( talk)	Expand
360		Greater Noida ( talk)	Expand
4,075		Blog ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
708		Indira Gandhi National Open University ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
28		Atanu Bhuyan ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
2		University Hall (Montana) ( talk)	Merge
52		Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme ( talk)	Merge
321		Direct Benefit Transfer ( talk)	Merge
143		Bharathiar University ( talk)	Wikify
4		Sanjeeb Mukherjee ( talk)	Wikify
51		Chitra Subramaniam ( talk)	Wikify
7		Medical deemed universities ( talk)	Orphan
56		Kellton Tech ( talk)	Orphan
5		Beyond Ynth ( talk)	Orphan
6		Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research ( talk)	Stub
6		Harbax Singh Stadium ( talk)	Stub
7		Jamia Millia Islamia University Ground ( talk)	Stub
17		Anil Kumar Tyagi ( talk)	Stub
25		Zamania ( talk)	Stub
10		Delhi Defenders ( talk)	Stub

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/ Press/Blogs
  • Past: Using the Digital to Engage Archival Radio Collections: Part II (Wikidata Workshop), Washington, D.C., November 2, 2017 with Andrew Lih and Alex Stinson
  • Past: Wikidata Clinic ( slides) in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017, with Andrew Lih and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
  • Past: Wikikonference in Prague with a Wikidata workshop in Czech and a introduction of Wikidata and its community
  • Wikipedia Weekly audio podcast coverage of Wikidata:
    • Episode 126 - Introduction to Wikidata, with Andrew Lih and Rob Fernandez
    • Episode 127 - WikidataCon 2017 roundtable discussion, with Andrew Lih, Liam Wyatt, Stacy Allison-Cassin, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, Rob Fernandez
  • Wikidata as authority linking hub: Connecting RePEc and GND researcher identifiers by Joachim Neubert
  • Importing data into Wikidata - Current challenges and ideas future development by Navino Evans
  • The Wikidata map in November 2017 and what changed during the last four months, by Addshore

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey. The voting phase is open until December 10th.
  • If you run any functionality on Wikimedia sites that uses queries to the Wikidata Query Service, please add it here ( more information)
  • The 600,000,000th edit has been made.
  • The first content made specifically for Wikimedia projects in space has been added to Wikidata (see Close encounters of the Wikipedia kind)
  • The Aaron Swartz Fellowship at OSA, Budapest, Hungary, is open for applications (deadline Dec. 31). The second focus area of the fellowship may be of interest to Wikidata folks.

• Did you know?
• Newest properties: set designer, Swedish Musical Heritage composer ID, National Film Board of Canada movie ID, South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame ID, World Rugby Hall of Fame ID, Microsoft Store album ID, date of burial or cremation, Lives of WWI ID, polymer of, monomer of, FAPESP researcher ID, FAPESP institution ID, NIOSH Publication Number, post town, arXiv author ID, CPE athlete ID, Mountain Project ID, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials ID, Atomic Heritage Foundation ID, Dreadnought Project page, IWGA athlete ID, Argentinian Historic Heritage ID
  • Query examples:
    • Timeline for the writer Robert Louis Stephenson ( source)
    • Movies with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill ( source)
    • Photographers born before the inception of the earliest photograph ( source)
  • Newest WikiProjects: Stolpersteine, Jasmerah
  • Newest database reports: Q5 with identical P18

• Development
  • Wikidata will get dedicated database resources, and go read-only for 30 minutes on 9th January 2018 ( phabricator:T181645)
  • There were no RDF dumps last week due to problems generating them, investigation is still going on ( phabricator:T181385)
  • Improved the threshold for ORES on Wikidata ( phabricator:T180450)
  • Working on fixing a regression after a change in MediaWiki core that makes edit links show up on diff pages ( phabricator:T181807)
  • More work on persistent editing of statements on Forms of a Lexeme (specifically phabricator:T180467)
  • Improved size of the diff that we sent to Wikipedia and co for changes happening on Wikidata. This is one more needed step towards only showing meaningful edits in the watchlists and recent changes there. ( phabricator:T113468)

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  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
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346		Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ( talk)	Add sources
433		Panipuri ( talk)	Add sources
30		Indian Law Institute ( talk)	Add sources
6		University School of Chemical Technology ( talk)	Add sources
489		Gondi people ( talk)	Add sources
18		Ansal University ( talk)	Add sources
964		Noida ( talk)	Cleanup
293		Delhi Technological University ( talk)	Cleanup
258		Gujarat International Finance Tec-City ( talk)	Cleanup
5,774		Economy of India ( talk)	Expand
57		Solhah Singaarr ( talk)	Expand
306		Higher education in India ( talk)	Expand
179		R. K. Singh ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
1,128		Indo-Aryan languages ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
76		Chandauli district ( talk)	Unencyclopaedic
103		Devanagari transliteration ( talk)	Merge
172		Biharis ( talk)	Merge
34		FRISK Software International ( talk)	Merge
3		Richard Trauner ( talk)	Wikify
7		Usha Sanyal ( talk)	Wikify
33		Literature from North East India ( talk)	Wikify
4		Karam Lehal ( talk)	Orphan
10		Migu ( talk)	Orphan
4		Gbenga Shobo ( talk)	Orphan
12		Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha ( talk)	Stub
765		Electronic funds transfer ( talk)	Stub
103		Kori caste ( talk)	Stub
1,734		Naamkarann ( talk)	Stub
10		Simla Youngs F.C. ( talk)	Stub
179		Neha Sargam ( talk)	Stub

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